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A worker prepares Soviet-time statues for dismantling in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 20, 2015. Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO. Cranes began hauling them off plinths after midnight, a quarter century after the Baltic state re-emerged from the wreckage of the Soviet Union, a highly charged demolition job as Lithuania faces fresh tensions with its neighbour Russia. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
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